Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
Reading the article the impression I got was that the root cause was largely Arizona not being cooperative//having a rather different outlook towards guns which in turn lead to federals trying to circumvent Arizona.
Arizona has somewhat lax laws on firearm purchases, which is why the ATF was trying to find which ones were being bought for the cartels. But the infighting and overall nonsense was between the feds.

I'm curious why they just didn't bust the straw purchasers for tax fraud/evasion. Bums off the street with gobs of cash, should have been easy.